The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-07


The management ot two or three | y.
diana roads are troubled to get new steel
rails TO make the Improvement. they desire
this year. Tho Lake Eric and Western wish
TO lay with g0nt ricil rails the portion Ut
their road lyiug b'tseen Peru and Michigan
City, hut Il is gust enable II they can get
the rail. TO do 90 this season. The mill me,
say there has been no check TO railroad m
struction, and the cRpacityofth, mile 10 sold
largely tor the next i've months, and buyors
are IN the market tor further requirement.
that are likely 20 absorb domestic srodue-
ton and afford a market frr ioreiga rails TO
Amoderate extent.
A DALLAS. Tex speciyl saws: The
officers Of the Dallas. Archer and Pacific are
hard st work Antweripg g dc uge of letters
from along the lire Of the ropd Tho let
tiers, one and all, are enthusiastic over the
prospect OF once again getiinEar AL They
pray for competition. AID tn writer's are
willing 10 help the road literally. The let
tiers shoN for themselves, aud are full Of
business. Citifsns Of Dallas have been
made acquainted sith the views Of the pso-
pie, and now there crops out feeling Of in-
the Northwest. II this feeling contit ue,,
the road will be surely built.
1T IL said that within the next two
years 1000 mills Of road will be built In
Wyoming Territory. A line will be run
from RAPID City, Oak, 20 the Crook county
lWysmingl oil fields, 100 mi 81; the en'en.
sion q the Wyoming Cent al from Fort Gas.
per, the present end Of the grade, 70 the
western boundary OF the Territory, vii be
800 miles. The extension Of the Cheyenne
and Northern 10 the northern line will also
be 800 miles Ia lengt', while the Burlington
NAL inE survey TO enter tho Territory at
Fort Laramie. and push the Western line.
covering 800 miles.
WITHIs the lat twelve months ak
bridges on Indiana roads have shown sisn,
Of weakness, and In four cases have gone
down with trains on them, In time II will
dawn upon the legislative body Of Indiana
that State 10 Which there are " many rail-
road there should be q commission, whose
duty, among other things, should be 20 AZ.
and " not safe order now ores In their
place. 10 MnssAch usetts the chiaf business
Of the Railroad Commissioners the last few
months has been 10 look into TIE condition
OF the ttruc 'urei or 1tting streams and
streets EraH'riiis Journal.
NEGOTIATIONS are 10 progress be-.
tween the Texas and Pacific RAILROAD Com.
PAM and one or two other railroad compa-
mics having their terminal at ~ PAto for
buildinga union depot near the bAntt OF
the hio 9rando 20 which ready access can
BE- had by all the lines coming 10 that city.
The Texas Pacific road vi build IL own
brifge ross TIE Rio Grande, 20 that u can
have immediate connection with the Mex.
can Central railroad. The reason Tor build
ins another bridge IL sad 10 te the aeayy
charges Of the hAnta Pc Tor the pss Of IL
track for transferring car. from the Texas
Pacific, 0alystton, Harrisburg and san An.
ionia and Southern Pao,fc 10 the Mexican
Central.
Ara meeting 81 tho American Ia.
stitate q leotr cal Hngineers IN NeN York.
June 18th. Mr.. George W Blodsett. Of the
Boston add Albany road, toai paper on
electric lighting Of passenger trains. lilo
rave description q the Apparatus 10 u'e on
the Southeastern railway OF EnFlAud, whsfs
. train hitsd vi electric lights, supplied
BY dynAmOs In the loars, has been rsnnins
Tor lsome time, aud reported that biz sNpe.
Renee with the trains running betW,on Boz
IsD ard N' ISJs X. . ,ss,'r a..
under the. cars arranged with stout
bras spring. on their sidos 30
that the simple lAet of p'a,inE thsm IN posi-
ton connscts them together 80 that no wire
conns,tion, hsye 20 be made o.. broken,
out. Mr.. u odgstt his designed an applr.
Atus Tor comb ming the switches connecting
the batteries with the lamps inside the cars,
and with the terminals used 10 connect the
rndsre very simple and errors b.. care.
lep or Inexperienced Attendants obViAted.
The cost Of operating the lights IL about 81 o
Gar eaoh day, or ! cent an hour for each
lamp. or the electricity supplied 10 the
storage batteries from the original source.
from one fourth 10 one third Il lost.
ALL the railroads IT, Mss nj have
q new . qusdrsaniai contract" The ,hip.
msnt Of tmall mails " more expensive W
proportion than that Of large ores, and the
increase In mail matter hand cd In the State
has been 80 great In the last four yeari that
the ffeiEhis paid have been dropped a peg
on the graduating schedule In almost every
instance. Superintendent Wafheld estitna-
ted the Amount Of mall sent over each road
every month, and tben put the several CON
panis, on ,se government pay, roll a, th"
pui,orJI on them. The growth IL wss,sfn
mail. Va the last few ytsts has been wonder.
iul." Superintendent warhel d sail
Jeiterdsy. 'Ihs capacity and extent
q The railyAE mail ,lTyics Is be-
Of the dull mail season, whel Of eourio N,
former u Il alone. Tho farmers stop read.
Ing he dali, pagers about the Let OF April,
, and from tht tine until tbs lst Of N0vsm.
ssr The Rsil, are co,se.idstably ighier than
miles are AIDED b the Iewlcs annualiy7'
"It yafie,. Last y ar postal ears we're pui
| on 22D miles u new road IN this one diyi
sion, but that 10 the largest addition ever
known IN one year, Next Jeaf pfomiies %
/ Missouri Central and the Colorado roaii will
proba6ly 30 conplf ted, md The MW,oufi
/ Pacific Will 10 running trains from Kinsai
City 10 Pueblo bsfols fall Then there ara
| numerous small branches being built"
/ where are the most miles being uiltT'
/ "The division includes Missouri, n mas,
| hrksnia, Colorado ADD Texas, and the 10.
| dian Territory and NeW NeHcO There IL
/ probably more road building In kansai
/ than 10 al the remainder Of the division
| Y.e~sd W the lisht Of the last few years,
| there Will bo more miles 0ifa.l foa In Kan
/ latin FIVE YEAR from nos than In any other
bta'e. 50. Louis Republican.
OUg record, which arc ia,sd nm a
very thor ugh and coptnuoui examination
Of the entire hsli, with the kipd 20 opsra
tion N the chief engineer and other rail
way officers, nov showthst between Januar,
! IL and June Goth there we're Ibid IN m,
Unitei State little over $3.50 miloi " nev
main ire track, boiides several hundrs Z
lines 81 sidings, etc, which are not mkef
into account. This l. An addition u ll0
miles since our statement for June Let, a verj
! large lncreass for q single mon he report
This V far lafseT sbONins Of new
co.. itfuetion than that for the corrsl pondinl
period In any previous year, excepting lss2
when nearly 300 miles we're laid down In III,
hfst siI months and III ,t6l In the year. III,
nearest approach 10 this vas In 1881, ubsr
about 2co miles we're reported In the trs